local area network

Questions about local area network

What does local area network mean?

local area network means "a local computer network for communication between computers; especially a network connecting computers and word processors and other electronic office equipment to create a communication system between offices".

What is another word for local area network?

Close synonyms include LAN. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is local area network a common word?

local area network is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for local area network come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.